Easy going: Williams crushes Beck to reach 4th round

Tsonga didn’t waste time serving out the match over a weary-looking Isner to seal the comeback 6-7 (3) 3-6 7-6 (5) 6-2 19-17 after four hours and 24 minutes.

Venus Williams of the U.S takes shelter under an umbrella as rain delays her women’s singles match against Daria Kasatkina of Russian Federation on day five of the Wimbledon Tennis Championships in London, Friday, July 1, 2016.

The 6-foot-10 American, who won the longest match in tennis history at the All England Club in 2010, found himself locked in another marathon against another Frenchman at the same site.

Tsonga’s next opponent will be countryman and No. 7 Richard Gasquet, who downed Albert Ramos-Vinolas of Spain, 2-6, 7-6 (5), 6-2, 6-3. She finished the first set with one of her seven aces and served out the match at love.

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However, resuming his match against Lucas Pouille on Court 12, he was unable to stop the Frenchman reversing the fortunes of the opening set to clinch a 6-7, 7-6, 7-5, 6-1 victory.

“But I know it’s a very long road to get better and get 100%. But to be honest, yeah, once, I said, Maybe it’s going to be long like Nicolas”.

No wonder Greensboro native John Isner favors Wimbledon changing to adopt a fifth-set tiebreaker. I didn’t have too much time to recover between matches after Wawrinka.

In women’s play, five-time champion Venus Williams and 12th-seeded Carla Suarez Navarro have their fourth-round spots sewn up, but a half-dozen players are still stuck in the second round, including two-time champion Petra Kvitova, No. 11 Time Bacsinszky and No. 18 Sloane Stephens.

After hitting a return into the net in the next game, Gasquet decided that he could not continue and went to shake hands with number 12 seed Tsonga, at 4-2 and 40-0 down.

The match was suspended on an ugly note on Saturday evening as Pouille, who had just taken a two sets to one lead, got into a discussion with the umpire and was unhappy at being told to “shut up” by Del Potro. Play another six service games each.

Earlier, Serena Williams needed just 51 minutes to clinch the 300th Grand Slam win of her career as the defending champion made the last 16.

The 27th-seeded American beat No. 7 Roberta Vinci of Italy 6-3, 6-4 on Centre Court on Sunday to reach the fourth round. The 27th-seeded American advanced to the quarterfinals here a year ago before losing to Maria Sharapova in three sets.

Former finalist Eugenie Bouchard is third up on Court No 2 against Dominika Cibulkova after knocking out Jo Konta and is also scheduled to play doubles later on. This time, seats could only be purchased online, and there was a far-less-vibrant vibe than in the past on what was known as “People’s Sunday”.

“She knows my game, I know her game”, Williams said.